[SLE] kinternet - dialup and connect utility -ANOTHER WAY PLEASE

From: Ted Hilts (thilts_at_help-for-you.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com, Ted Hilts <thilts@help-for-you.com>

    KDE Kinternet function is working fine when used within the KDE desktop
    (windows) environment as it was intended. No problems. But I want to
    activate this functionality (less the windows displays and mouse
    movements) from the command line in order to achieve dial up and
    internet connection.

    I thought doing this would be straight forward but now it looks like
    it's way over my head.

    WHAT I DID: From the command line I tried the various components that
    appear (according to the Internet log) to be utilized (smpppd-ifcfg then
    the daemon smpppd and then /etc/ppp/ip-up with the dial up apparently
    automatically called within the operation of PPP0) but the connection
     established
    would not work when the script applied a ping.

    I have no idea why not because Kinternet works and all the associated
    configuration files appear to be in order. Firewall and other things
    appear to be manipulated in these scripts which may account for a
    connection that does not let anything through. Perhaps I execute the
    wrong scripts or miss out on some variable that Kinternet sets or who
    knows why. Which is why I now come to the list.

    I would very much like to activate this capability as root from the
    command line without having to have the KDE desktop open (which uses CPU
    and Memory resources) when all I am running on
    this particular machine is a gateway/router. I was able to do this on a
    previous SuSE 6.4 distribution, also a Slackware and also a Red Hat but
    SuSE 9.1 is now more complicated and integrated than 6.4.

    Apparently Kinternet utilizes a script that does all the non windows
    functions and it does not appear
    possible to simply call Kinternet and turn off these windows operations.
    I tried looking inside Kinternet but was not successful. -- way too much
    GUI stuff.

    First Question: Probably the answer is NO. Can kinternet be used on the
    command line outside of the KDE windows environment???

    Second Question: If not, does anyone have a command line expression (or
    series of expressions) that will do the same thing less all the windows
    specific operations. I used to be able to do this with some
    interaction with the modem (to dial up and connect to the ISP) and one
    command line to deal with PPP0 internet connectivity. That command line
    no longer does the job.

    TED 

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